Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002

199 leaves : 185 x 117 (130 x 65) mm bound to 185 x 115 x 20 mm

Complete copy of the Qur'ān in an inset, color-contrast paper technique

Manuscript codex

Title from colophon (f. 199r)

Customs stamp dated A.H. 1312 (1895) (f. 3r)

Layout: 18 long lines

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized

Decoration: Polychrome [red, blue, green] and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 3v-4r) with text in cloudbands; polychrome [gold, red, blue] marginal verse markers; textblock border ruled [gold, black]; page openings framed in black rules; readings in red and chapter titles in gold; gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings

Foliation: Contains catchwords on the outer frame and folio numbers on the lower left corner of each inset verso. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to modern foliation

Shelfmark: MS Or 91

Former shelfmark: X893.7K84 I112

Origin: Copy completed at the end of the second part of the month of Dhū al-Qaʻdah, approximately 20 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 A.H. (fī awākhir al-ʻushr al-thānī min shahr Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 AH)

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934

Islamic binding. Painted lacquer over pasteboards with leather spine. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description

Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR

Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO

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